Chapter 180: The Battle Begins
But the current calm does not mean that you can take it lightly, and it is no coincidence that your familiar home is easily broken into by outsiders. Now that he is in the dark, he can't determine the other party's whereabouts, and he doesn't even know the identity of the other party, Tianjihong understands that now his home is no longer a safe hiding place; After briefly cleaning up some chores at home, Tian Jihong was already planning to get out and leave as soon as possible, at least until he determined who the danger came from, he and his younger brother would definitely not stay here for long, at least until the master and his old man returned.
Just as Tianjihong hurriedly cleaned up some daily necessities from his home and was about to leave a note for his master, there was a disturbance sound outside the house, which immediately aroused Tianjihong's vigilance. Due to the geographical advantage of being at home, Tian Jihong did not always cover a wider range of soul consciousness outside the house, but fortunately, under his extra vigilance, his excellent hearing first detected the changes around him, so that he could react early.
However, when Tianjihong immediately set his eyes in the direction where the sound outside the house came from, his heartbeat suddenly accelerated a little. About 100 meters from the house, a huge body was already lying on the road leading to the village outside the hut; This huge figure like a dragon is just like what Lin Rong and the others described, its head is three or four times as tall as itself, and its size is probably several times larger than the salamander encountered in the Dongyun Mountains.
Except for the unknown existence that Tianjihong encountered under the volcano, this spirit beast can definitely be regarded as the largest beast in his life. The huge tail as thick as a bucket set this spirit beast apart from ordinary dragon-type spirit beasts, but it had a bit of a lizard-like quality; However, just by looking at the scale armor on its tail that shines like a blade, you can guess the terrifying power that this tail can exert, Tian Jihong has seen the fire salamander with a similar physique before, and the unparalleled power it exerted when fighting with the snake turtle, and now it is finally his turn to personally deal with such a similar spirit beast whose cultivation is several levels higher, and he is inevitably a little apprehensive in his heart.
Needless to say, the guy in front of him, who was the size of half a room, was the abyss Jiao who had disturbed everyone in and out of the village in the past few days. Between the quadrangular heads, the two dark yellow eyes revealed endless fierce light, and in the monstrous mouth, which was as wide and narrow as a millstone, a scarlet snake spat out from between the fangs, and a red band as long as an arm swayed up and down in the air.
In addition, the body of this abyss Jiao did not see the claws developed by ordinary fierce beasts, and the whole body was like a cobra relying on the huge strength of the back half of the body to support the body to stand upright between the ground, but in the process of crawling and moving, the upper body that was originally standing in the air and was three people tall could flexibly cling to the surface of the ground, reducing the resistance to move in the process.
In the face of such a powerful opponent, Tian Jihong was already quickly thinking about how to deal with this Dark Abyss Jiao in his mind. In the face of this big man whose strength is enough to reach the peak of the Yi Muscle Realm, he obviously can't take advantage of it in terms of spiritual power, and because of the innate advantage of the other party as a spirit beast, the strength of his physical body may also reach an incredible level, and it is also difficult for him to take advantage of it in close combat. Therefore, Tian Jihong understood that he had to give full play to the strengths of a martial artist in terms of soul power and magic weapons in order to defeat such an opponent across the ranks.
At this time, there was not much time left for Tianjihong to think, and this short distance of only more than a hundred meters was only a two-step distance for the spirit beasts of the Forging Bone Realm to cultivate. Although the young man with a calm face in front of him was also a little jealous, so he didn't dare to move forward at full speed, it only took less than ten seconds for this abyss Jiao to lean over and shuttle through the grass of more than 100 meters. Tian Jihong had just roughly planned the battle plan, and before he had time to think about why this beast would appear so coincidentally at this critical juncture, a full sweep from the opponent was already close to the former's body.
Under the full force of the spirit beast from the Forging Bone Realm, Tian Jihong would never dare to use his physical body to make a hard connection, plus he didn't know much about such a strange opponent at the moment, so he could just test the opponent's situation. Therefore, Tian Jihong directly got up and jumped up along the beam behind him, and jumped onto the fence wall outside the house with a backflip before the attack came. And there was a loud bang behind him, indicating that the humble hut where he had lived for two years collapsed with a blow in the face of the spirit beast of the Forging Bone Realm.
didn't have time to feel sorry for the damaged objects at home, Tian Jihong hurriedly distanced himself from the big guy in front of him. In addition to moving the battlefield away from the house and reducing the loss of the family, this move is also one of the strategies he planned early on.
In the case that it is difficult for him to have an advantage in hand-to-hand combat, Tian Jihong obviously knows that he needs to release his soul sense from a long distance to suppress the opponent, and at the same time, the opponent's bloated body can be easily captured by himself even if it is attached to the surface, on the contrary, his extremely small body can easily hide among the grass, so that he naturally leaves more opportunities for counterattack.
The Abyss Jiao, who attacked first, was obviously unwilling to let go of its prey so easily. The reason why Tian Jihong was able to easily dodge his opponent's attacks before was not because his speed could suppress the huge Abyss Jiao, but mainly because the latter attacked it from a long distance in a straight line, and he caught the way of attacking early. And after successfully getting rid of the Dark Abyss Jiao and opening up the distance, the latter finally showed his full strength, and when his huge body swung, he actually followed closely behind Tian Jihong at a speed that was not inferior to that of his opponent.
Tianjihong saw that it was difficult to get rid of the opponent's tracking, and continued to flee to leave the area he was familiar with; And he was also under the arrangement of his master, and he intended to have a decisive battle with this big guy, so Tian Jihong quickly stopped and started his own counterattack. For such a behemoth whose strength surpassed that of the masked leader before, Tian Jihong directly took out the weapon from the package and fought against it.
I saw that Tian Jihong held the treasure knife tightly in his left hand, waved the short blade in his right hand, and staggered one sword after another, and unleashed a series of clouds and water-like attacks on the opponent in front of him. The latter carelessly did not realize the strength of the blade in Tianjihong's hand, and when he tried to rely on his own scales to resist the oncoming blade, he quickly hung up his color, and was cut by Tianjihong, who was holding the treasure, on his back with several hideous wounds that could be seen in blood.
Tian Jihong, who had exhausted most of his spiritual power in a complete set of sword slashes, saw that his opponent was suppressed by his own attack for a while, and began to become a little cringe, so he also seized the opportunity to retreat to the side and widen the distance again, and began to use the exercises in his body to adjust his aura.
As mentioned before, when the monk and the spirit beast faced off, although the spirit beast could theoretically hold out for a long time in a protracted battle with its strong vitality and physical strength; However, in fact, whenever a monk of the same rank dragged into a war of attrition, the latter who practiced the exercises was often able to suppress the former who could only rely on beast skills or brute force; Under the premise that there is no way to rely on the exercises to restore the spiritual power consumed in the body, even if the spirit beast has a powerful body, in the face of the constant entanglement and tug-of-war of the monks, most of them will eventually be defeated.
At present, Tian Jihong relied on such a natural advantage, and he knew that even if it was difficult for him to defeat his opponent in a short period of confrontation, he could rely on spiritual power recovery to drag the opponent alive until he was exhausted. Although he is only a cultivator of the Kaiyuan Realm, and he basically has to exhaust all his spiritual power after casting a whole set of attacks, he has an unexpected advantage in physique, and his light and thin body can easily find a dead corner to dodge when he is entangled with such a huge guy like a house; Coupled with the advantage of his soul power, as long as he is not hit by the opponent's large-scale attack and dodges in time, it is a matter of time before he drags on until the opponent tries his best.
At the same time, the Abyss Jiao, whose back was stained with blood like a needle, gradually turned from shock to anger after a short retreat. Although it is close to the level of the Bone Forging Realm, the physical damage at this surface level can be quickly recovered by relying on spiritual power, and it is basically unlikely to affect one's own combat power; But when the current Abyss Jiao was attacking first, he was robbed of the opportunity by the opponent because of his carelessness.
The smell of blood around his body obviously also stimulated the beastly nature of the Abyss Jiao, just looking at the fierce light in his eyes, the aura around his body that was almost comparable to the Bone Forging Realm completely exploded; The Abyss Jiao twisted its body into an arc, trying to directly encircle the opponent in front of it in the center, and at the same time, its head and tail cooperated with each other, one left and one right, respectively, towards the opponent who was firmly wrapped in the city wall.
Seeing that the opponent was annoyed and angry and wanted to completely block his retreat, Tian Jihong did not dare to slack off at all. For the opponent's offensive with all his might, Tian Jihong was extremely satisfied in his heart: before he could detect the opponent's ability and habits, he used all his strength to attack, not only was it difficult to achieve the expected effect, but the consumption of spiritual power in the body of this abyss Jiao was also extraordinarily significant, if the opponent had been attacking in such a state of rage, he would inevitably be powerless in less than five minutes, and he only needed to resist the opponent's three axes to turn the situation around in one fell swoop and take the initiative.
Sure enough, as Tian Jihong expected, after relying on his soul sense advantage to dodge the fierce attack from the Abyss Jiao as much as possible, after about three minutes, the rhythm of the opponent's attack tended to ease; Obviously, the spiritual power in the other party's body was already difficult to maintain, and even the speed of movement between the huge bodies had been visibly reduced.